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¿Dónde está el probador?

¿Dónde está el probador?
Where is the fitting room?
From Lesson 72:Demonstratives (este, ese, aquel)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about ¿Dónde está el probador?

How would I change this to ask "Where is THAT fitting room?" instead of "the" fitting room?
To point out a specific fitting room, you can replace el (the) with a demonstrative adjective from our current lesson. Depending on the distance, you would use ese probador (that fitting room near the listener) or aquel probador (that fitting room further away from both of you).
Probador looks like it comes from a verb. What does it mean?
Spot on! It comes from the verb probar, which means "to try", "to test", or in the context of clothes, "to try on". So, el probador literally means the place where you try things on.
A fitting room is a permanent room in a store. Shouldn't we use "es" instead of "está"?
No, because you are asking for its location. In Spanish, we always use the verb estar (to be) to talk about the physical location of people, places, or things, no matter how permanent they are.
Why does Dónde have an accent mark over the 'o'?
In Spanish, all question words (like qué, cuándo, quién, and dónde) need a written accent mark when they are used to ask a question. This helps tell them apart from their non-question forms.

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